I am writing in response to‚ "For Better or for Worse"‚ an editorial written by Mary Ann Glendon in the Wall Street Journal. In this article Ms. Glendon opines that there should be an amendment to the U.S. constitution defining marriage as a solely heterosexual institution‚ that if not protected would threaten religious freedom‚ the rights of children‚ and even the democratic process. Ms. Glendon has a right to state her opinion‚ but we must not get distracted from what is essentially: an issue
Premium Homosexuality Sexual orientation Marriage
----------------------- Venkateshwar international school Name : ………………………. Class : ……………. Subject : ……………………….. Date : ……………. VIS–10‚ DWARKA‚ NEW DELHI VIS–10‚ DWARKA‚ NEW DELHI Venkateshwar international school COMMUNICABLE DISEASES 1. The insect which causes dengue is - (a) mosquito (b) housefly (c) flea (d) cockroach 2. A water borne disease
Free Infectious disease Influenza Malaria
People should be fined for not recycling AFFIRMATIVE Starting a good practice sometimes requires incentive‚ whether it is positive or negative. Although I do think it is a good idea to recycle‚ and everyone should do it. There are a few problems People will resist change. They have been dumping trash all their lives and think it is good enough. In many instances recycling costs money‚ mainly driveway pick-up recycling. And people don’t want to spend money.Enforcement‚ even if people were fined
Premium Recycling Earth Fine
For Multinationals Offers employment to local workers Promotes peace internationally Creates sense of community crossing international borders Allows entire world to improve standard of living Gives access to quality products regardless of location Promotes economic stability Raises standard of living for regions involved in production Gives local economies new economic opportunities Fact of life which needs to be accepted Reflects global economy Against Multinationals Ruins local economies
Premium Economies Economy Economics
Minimum wage can be a very picky subject due to many different opinions on the topic. Minimum wage can only be understood by people who have been paid nothing but minimum wage. To say that everyone that is making minimum wage is struggling is an overstatement. Although there are some negatives with the minimum wage. A person who makes minimum wage still endures the same amount of labor as a person who do not get paid minimum wage. Coming from me‚ a person who made minimum wage working in fast food
Premium Minimum wage
Good evening ladies and gentlemen‚ adjudicator and fellow debaters. The topic that the first affirmative speaker has already introduced is that we should abolish special youth wages. However‚ my team disagrees with this and we believe that we should keep the youth wages that our country already has. Our team agrees with the definition the affirmative team presented. As the first speaker‚ I‚ Sheryl George will be discussing the employment and educational problems we would in face in Australia
Premium Employment
The main thesis of the Chapter is the ethical‚ moral‚ and political concerns regarding experimentation on human embryos. In the chapter‚ Philosopher Bonnie Steinbeck argues that embryos have a moral value‚ but do not possess a moral status. In her argument‚ moral value is when good reasons can be used to justify a being’s existence rather than objectifying it‚ and moral status is a being’s ability to have its own interests. For example‚ the ability for a being to feel pain. One would assume that
Premium Stem cell Barack Obama
For many years‚ gay and lesbian couples faced hatred‚ discrimination‚ and lethal violence simply because of their sexual preference. Last year the Supreme Court ruled in favor of gay marriage‚ making it legal to marry regardless of sexual preference. For the first time in American History all citizens gay or straight‚ had a legal right to marry the person they loved most in the world. The modern day gay rights movement began in at the Stonewall Inn in New York City on June 28‚ 1969. The Stonewall
Premium Homosexuality Same-sex marriage Supreme Court of the United States
While reading statistics on shooting and gun violence‚ I am flabbergasted. I am not ignorant to the fact that there is violence and a lot of it; however‚ I was not aware that 33‚880 people die from gun violence in one year. I was raised in a great environment growing up that was in a great part of town‚ which was safe. I did not have to worry about going outside to play and possibly getting shot wile I was outside. A lot of kids are not that luck. Every day on average‚ this is EVERY DAY‚ 48 children
Premium Firearm Gun politics in the United States Gun
IS TIBET PART OF CHINA // for more than 700 years‚ the central government of china has continously exercised sovereignty over tibet and tibat has never been an independent state. No government of any country has ever recognized tibet as an independent state. As the government of tibet‚ china concluded several treaties with british and india touching on the status ‚ boundaries and access to tibet. Like for example the simla accord of 1914‚ in which interests of their several states on the continent
Premium Tibet Dalai Lama People's Republic of China